Category : Rants

23 Nov

3D in managed mode (WPF, and not only)

by Marco Mastropaolo

In this week I had the chance to do a little work with WPF 3D capabilities. I wanted to implement a user control implementing a visualizer of “something” in 2D for a Windows.Forms application. I decided to add a 3D view capability. Language used was C#. I started with Managed DirectX. It’s crap. Simply put, [...]

Filed Under: .NET, Programming, Rants

03 Aug

Wow! Your Guest Book – Is Awesome!

by Marco Mastropaolo

OK. I was on holidays (Porto Santo.. wonderful place! I will upload my photos on flickr sooner or later) and got back to work a couple of weeks ago. I sorted out comments just today. In the next few weeks I will surely be busy because I have found a few ONLINE CHEAPEST PHARMACY with [...]

08 Nov

Shell extensions in C# and/or VB.NET

by Marco Mastropaolo

Update: .NET 4.x and later should allow different .NET versions to be loaded side-by-side in the same process, so the argument below probably does not stand anymore (if your extensions use .NET 4.x or later). It’s still dangerous waters in my opinion. —   Please, repeat with me. I WILL NEVER WRITE SHELL EXTENSIONS IN [...]

21 Oct

Unbelievable Optimization X

by Marco Mastropaolo

This is something which happened some years ago. There was some-project I won’t name(*) (let’s just say it was a server emulator of some popular MMORPG), with their development forum. I found a post suggesting an optimization they were going to implement. Basically the file saving phase was something like this : if (someplayer->hp != [...]